ENST 201 1st Edition Lecture 16 Outline of Last Lecture I Transmission chains II Sir Alexander Flemming Outline of Current Lecture I Antibiotics II Globalization III How disease spread IV How does it escape rural areas V Diversity VI FILM Current Lecture I II III Antibiotic problem is a market failure because market lacks long term thinking a Not a lot of money going into developing new antibiotics b Governments are not investing c There are diseases that antibiotics can not help Globalization is effecting relationship with disease a Changes our relationship with remote habitats creates opportunity to spread even more i Ex Aids b Urbanization people are living more closely with each other c Air travel trucking any transportation spread disease wherever they travelled i Truckers move around a lot and spread disease throughout the places they travel How did disease spread from a rural disease a Men leave families in rural areas to travel to city for jobs These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute IV V VI b They send home money but not all money is sent back i Men use money on prostitutes and infect them with disease c Women who do not have enough money go into prostitution and some of these women are infected How does it escape and become global pandemic a Sex Tourism Europeans Americans et cetera are sleeping with infected prostitutes they become infected then bring it back to their home b Drugs ex Heroin with blood i Infected needles are spread around With diversity comes a lot of disease agents a As this new variety of agents come into global economy through globalization the disease will spread and could escape and become a global pandemic b People go work in the remote locations and plant food work et cetera can get infected FILM non infectious disease endocrine disruptors a The Jungle about meat packing industry b Endocrine disruptor BPA in plastics that leak out during use i Ex Food containers lining of food cans toys ii Studies show BPA in animals causes breast and testicular cancer iii EPA had to screen 15 000 chemicals as possible endocrine disruptors 1 Years went by and EPA still had not tested a single chemical 2 Separate study was carried out on BPA where they found that BPA caused human breast cancer cells to grow more rampantly iv Many studies were done that showed BPA was harmful panel rejected their studies and only accepted studies from sources that had ties to the chemical industry 1 These studies show that BPA is not harmful in low doses to humans v The market showed the public s opinion 1 People were buying glass products and BPA free plastic
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